Center for Vulnerable Populations
Faculty Mentoring Lunchtime Series - Margot Kushel, MD
TIPS FOR SUCCESS: Faculty Mentoring Lunchtime Series
This lunch series features distinguished faculty mentors in an informal session about mentorship, career advancement and satisfaction at UCSF.
Light lunch will be provided.
All faculty are welcome to attend. Registration is encouraged and will reserve you a lunch, but drop ins are welcome.
Closing the Gap between Rigor and Relevance - CFAR Symposium
Implementation science is an emerging field focused on closing the gap between efficacious interventions and real world practice. While the HIV research community has enthusiastically embraced the motivation for implementation science, there is far less consensus on the critical approaches to successful conduct of implementation science in the context of the HIV epidemic. Many methodological issues, which have perhaps been less emphasized in traditional clinical research, are particularly salient for knowledge about implementation. External validity is as important as internal validity.
Alicia Fernandez receives grant to establish UCSF Latinx Center of Excellence
Vanessa Grubbs selected as CHCF Fellow
Vanessa Grubbs, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology at the University of California, San Francisco, was selected as a 2018-
CVP Faculty Assume New Leadership Roles
It gives us great pleasure to announce Dr. Urmimala Sarkar as Associate Director of CVP and Dr. Alicia Fernández as Director of the CVP Program in Latinx and Immigrant Health.
Memorial Service for Shane Colombo, SF BUILD Scholar
"We were devastated to learn of the tragic death of Shane Colombo – a graduate of San Francisco State University who was set to begin his PhD in psychology at Northwestern. At UCSF we are fortunate to partner with San Francisco State University to increase opportunity for promising undergraduates interested in careers in science through the SF BUILD program. Shane was in the first cohort of SF BUILD and inspired all of us with his intelligence, passion, and deep commitment to science and the promise of science to improve the lives in all of our communities.
Medicine Grand Rounds
Kelly Ray Knight is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at UCSF. Her research centers on the social and clinical experience of addiction, racialized health disparities, and health conditions produced or exacerbated by structural violence. She teaches in the UCSF/UCB medical anthropology graduate program and UCSF Institute of Global Health Sciences, serves as curricular advisor and lecturer in addiction medicine and structural competency for the UCSF School of Medicine, and is faculty mentee
Dinner and Panel: Addiction Medicine and the Opioid Crisis.
Please join Catherine Lucey, MD, Executive Vice Dean and Vice Dean for Education, for a special panel on addiction medicine and the opioid crisis on Tuesday, October 23, at 5:00pm in N217. This panel is open to the entire UCSF community. It is co-sponsored by the Departments of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, and Psychiatry.